Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

The latest “crisis” in Russia lasted over night. Farmers will soon be afraid to be seen bringing eggs to town, for

fear of encountering the income-tax collector. A This would be a good time to include the sheep-killing dog in the meatless days. Species o. ferula or giant fennel, from Europe, Asia and Africa furnish asaietida, now' -a high-priced commodity. ■ Eggs 75 cents a dozen ih Chicago! That fabled goose that laid the goldeggs was a piker beside the little birbwn hen. ;. An evangelist says the kaiser and ■his field marshals . will spend eternity in hell. In that case Judas Iscariot should start a petition for a pardon. j ' Dr. Garfield might at least have gotten,.-, a little more co-operation on the part of the weather man before springing that order for those 1.-atless days. The one redeeming feature of the Russian muddle is that when the daily papers, are short of •feature"! I pews, they can always find s ‘another - -is in the Russian situation." I Ireland has 350,000 men in the British army out of her population lof 4 ,-JS 0,')01 1 . And yet Congress woman Rankin cherishes the delusion i that there is an "Irish question’ that she can settle. A false rumor that all pigs were [to be commandeered resulted in a wholesale slaughter by pig breedi *-rs at Lincoln, England, which was only stopped by a telegram fro\m I Lord Rhondda. \ The girl carpenters, who are i building huts for our troops in I France, spent a few days at ChristI was at Byfleet, Surrey, their headquarters, and on their return held a fancy dress ball. In olden times there was a saying that "when thieves fall out, honest [ men get their due.” Now, instead lof falling out they divide the “territory" and honest men don’t stand ■the ghost of a chance. Study of advertising is attract- ( ing more women than ever before at the University df Wisconsin, j Thirteen women, most of them stu- ' dents in journalism, are now en- , rolled in the class, studying ad j writing and soliciting advertisements | along with thirty men. Between the task of keeping the | outside world ignorant of the true ’situation in Germany, and keeping ithe German people ignorant df the true situation in the outside world, | ae kaiser is about as busy as a man with a basket of eels. A Masonic lodge is said to have j been formed on a transport within Ithe last few weeks, under a dispensation issued by the grand lodge of New York, and the lodge was opened, officers elected and installed when the transport reached the danger zone of the German U-boats.